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Investiture - Royal Ceremony and National Identity in Wales, 1911-1969 (Hardcover, New)
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Investiture - Royal Ceremony and National Identity in Wales, 1911-1969 (Hardcover, New)
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Loot Price R596
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Through a study of an "invented" royal ceremony held in Wales in
1911 and again in 1969, "Investiture: Royal Ceremony and National
Identity in Wales 1911-1969" explores the problematic, contested
and changing relationship between nationality, ethnicity and the
state in the United Kingdom. What happens to the meaning of the
British monarchy when it leaves the English centre and crosses into
the Celtic periphery? How does royal ceremony become a vehicle for
defining and contesting the relationship between ethnicity,
nationality and the state when it takes place amongst a problematic
group like the Welsh? How are internal social and cultural
divisions within the periphery represented, addressed and
reconciled in such ceremonial? How do these relationships and the
constellations of identity that they form change over time? This
study explores the ethnic margins and imperial dimensions of
British national identity through the ceremonies of the Investiture
of the Prince of Wales and the public reaction to them. Through the
vehicle of ascribing meaning to this royal ceremony, competing
parties and social groups defined alternative and often conflicting
models of Welshness and its relationship to British national
identity, the British state and the British Empire.
The 1911 ceremony took place in the midst of a political maelstrom
involving nationalist demands and industrial conflict that
questioned the very basis of the British constitution and the
nature of the British state. The ceremony of 1969 was conducted in
an atmosphere of youth protest, decolonization,
deindustrialization, nationalist extremism and violence. An
examination of the ceremonies and their relationship to the social,
political and cultural environments within which they were
preformed will identify the changing problems and limitations of
national identity in a multinational state at two crucial stages in
the modern history of Wales and the United Kingdom.
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